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Calophyllum insularum

Family
Calophyllaceae (Calophyll family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
W. New Guinea (Geelvink Bay Is.)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Calophyllum insularum is a species of flowering plant in the Calophyllaceae family. It is a tree found only on the Cenderawasih Bay (Geelvink Bay) islands of western New Guinea, in Indonesia's West Papua region. It grows in lowland rain forest at about 200 metres elevation. It is threatened by habitat loss.

The species was first described by Peter F. Stevens in 1980.

Other Calophyllum plants

Calophyllum acidus · Calophyllum acutiputamen · Antilles calophyllum · Calophyllum apetalum · Alligatorbark · Calophyllum austroindicum · Calophyllum bicolor · Calophyllum bifurcatum · Calophyllum bracteatum · Santa Maria · Calophyllum brassii · Calophyllum calaba

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calophyllum insularum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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